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Militants give Abbas enthusiastic greeting
By Steven Erlanger The New York Times
Friday, December 31, 2004

Show of unity masks internal disputes

TEL AVIV Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian presidency, campaigned Thursday in a Jenin refugee camp, where he was lifted on the shoulders of gunmen and made welcome by a militant leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Zakariya Zubeidi, one of Israel's most wanted men.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/30/news/mideast.html

1,034 posted on 01/01/2005 4:33:53 PM PST by Oorang (I want to breathe the fresh air of freedom, at the dawn of every day, it's the American way.)

News report from Banda Aceh, FYI

Acehnese town that bore tsunami's brunt
By Paul Dillon in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C16C930F-48D0-4641-9B25-DBA0FADFE29B.htm

1,035 posted on 01/01/2005 4:38:56 PM PST by Oorang (I want to breathe the fresh air of freedom, at the dawn of every day, it's the American way.)